Old School

Old School

“God teaches us a lot when we experience the pains of trials and tribulations that befall us in our daily lives.”~Jon Barnes

Chartered

While riding on this chartered bus of the unknown, we are able to see why compassion for the poor, underserved, outcast and homeless are needed.By the Grace of God, we all live, think, work, love, eat, and breath, and many of us take this fact for granted.You can tell because many do not know who God is.

Bused

The traditional love, family, lifestyle, and common sense of farming working, and supply of clean water has been bused, piped, or rerouted and collected in the new castles controlled by the so-called new kings and queens of this age.Focus on how you fit into this web and ask God, are you in the right place?

New School

Enjoy God’s new school of simplicity, honesty, and spiritual wealth that tends to be overlooked by mankind.Few will understand and use this concept to follow Christ into Heaven.Most will follow the crowd of deception, greed, lust, and self-indulgence that flows directly into the hot pit.What a pity.

Today’s Question

Is God on your bus or are you being bused straight to hell?

Enjoy The Reading

2 Chronicles 16

Final Years of Asa’s Reign

16 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa’s territory in Judah.

2 Asa responded by removing the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Temple of the Lordand the royal palace. He sent it to King Ben-hadad of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, along with this message:

3 “Let there be a treaty[a] between you and me like the one between your father and my father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”

4 Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa’s request and sent the commanders of his army to attack the towns of Israel. They conquered the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah,[b] and all the store cities in Naphtali.5 As soon as Baasha of Israel heard what was happening, he abandoned his project of fortifying Ramah and stopped all work on it.6 Then King Asa called out all the men of Judah to carry away the building stones and timbers that Baasha had been using to fortify Ramah. Asa used these materials to fortify the towns of Geba and Mizpah.

7 At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa and told him, “Because you have put your trust in the king of Aram instead of in the Lord your God, you missed your chance to destroy the army of the king of Aram.8 Don’t you remember what happened to the Ethiopians[c] and Libyans and their vast army, with all of their chariots and charioteers?[d] At that time you relied on the Lord, and he handed them over to you.9 The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.”

10 Asa became so angry with Hanani for saying this that he threw him into prison and put him in stocks. At that time Asa also began to oppress some of his people.

Summary of Asa’s Reign

11 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a serious foot disease. Yet even with the severity of his disease, he did not seek the Lord’s help but turned only to his physicians.13 So he died in the forty-first year of his reign.14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out for himself in the City of David. He was laid on a bed perfumed with sweet spices and fragrant ointments, and the people built a huge funeral fire in his honor.